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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 25 No. 40 Thursday, November 12, 1987 $12.00 Per Year Msgr. McDonough Is Hospitalized BY GRETCHEN REISER Monsignor John F. McDonough, the administrator of the archdiocese, was hospitalized this week for surgery after he was diagnosed as having a malignant tumor in the colon. The surgery was sched uled to be performed Thurs., Nov. 12 at Pied mont Hospital in Atlanta where Monsignor McDon ough’s physician of many years practices. The expec tation was that a colostomy would be performed, Mon signor McDonough said. Since May of this year, Monsignor McDonough, who is 73, has served as the head of the archdiocese, first in his position as vicar general and then as diocesan administrator when he was elected to that post Aug. 14 by the priests’ ad visory council, the College of Consultors. Prior to the illness of Archbishop Thomas Donnellan this year, which led to Monsignor McDonough’s archdiocesan responsibilities, he was administrator of the Cathedral of Christ the King for 15 years. Monsignor McDonough said that having consulted priest colleagues, he would continue as diocesan administrator unless circumstances indicated otherwise in the future. Surgery was expected to be followed by a hospital stay of 10 days and then an extended recuperation period at home, he said. Women's Issues: Debated, Deleted BY GREG ERLANDSON VATICAN CITY (NC) — Some of the synod’s most controversial and attention-getting issues concerned women, their roles in the church and non-ordained ministries. Yet when the final propositions to be presented to the pope were voted on by the synod, all explicit calls for study or action on deaconesses and female acolytes, lectors and altar servers had been deleted In their place was Proposition 18, asking Pope John Paul II to re-evaluate a 1972 papal decree allowing lay men to be installed in the ministries of acolyte and lector, a status previously reserved for the minor orders. Archbishop John P. Foley, head of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications and one of the relators charged with drawing up the list of voting propositions, said the synod “subsumed” the issue of ministries for women under calls for a reconsidera tion of the 1972 decree, “Ministeria Quaedam.” The deletion of the proposals meant that synod delegates who opposed opening non-ordained ministries to women could claim victory. Proposition (Continued on page 7) 1 BLESSING — The new church in Jasper is with administrator Father Joseph Nolan, M.S., blessed by Father Vincent Douglass, C.SS.R., at his side during the dedication Mass. Our Lady Of The Mountains Church Dedicated In Pickens County BY RITA McINERNEY The new church of Our Lady of the Mountains was dedicated Saturday, Nov. 7 at a Mass celebrated by Father Vincent J. Douglass, C.SS.R., dean of the Northwest Rural Deanery and pastor of St. Gerard’s Church in Fort Oglethorpe. He substituted for Monsignor John E. McDonough, diocesan administrator, who was unable to of ficiate because of illness. The small church outside Jasper, which seats 154 people, was filled to capacity for the celebration. For Father Joseph J. Nolan, M.S., pastoral administrator, and the 60 families of the three-year-old mission it was a day of joy and fulfillment. In his homily, Father Douglass dwelled on “home,” the place where comfort is found, the place of memories, the source of strength and support, where there are people to trust. “God wants us to come home, to be part of his family, to take time to be renewed and refreshed through the Liturgy of the Word, to be strengthened through the Eucharist, to renew ourselves so we can witness to the world. God is always here ready to listen to us. We are never alone,” he told the attentive congregation. He urged his listeners to make a special effort to visit Him on a regular basis. “Come in to His holy temple and take the gifts He offers to you so you can give it to others.” He told the parishioners that he was “overwhelmed at what you have done. You couldn’t have done it if you didn’t believe.” p Father Douglass was assisted by Father Thomas J. Car- |j roll, pastor of the Church of St. Ann in Marietta, and by | Father Nolan. Two rows of LaSalette priests were on one side of the altar. Father John J. O’Neil, LaSalette provin cial from Hartford, Conn., proclaimed the Gospel. Our Lady of the Mountains was established as a mission of Our Lady of LaSalette Church in Canton on Sept. 16,1984 by the late Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan and Father Nolan appointed to serve the growing number of Catholics in Pickens County. (Continued on page 6) ENTRANCE — Our Lady of the Mountains is shown with the connecting rectory at the left.
